Khadija El Alaoui
Biographic Data
| ID | 642496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khadija El Alaoui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khadija |
| FAMILY NAME | El Alaoui |
| SIGNATURE | EL ALAOUI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6852-8800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural considerations for the second language writing anxiety inventory
Introduction This study examines the applicability of the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) to a population of 857 native Arabic-speaking Saudi Arabian female university students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Methods Participants were divided into two groups. The first of these consisted of 430 students who participated in the testing portion of the study. The second group consisted of 427 students who participated…
Changing times in the middle of East and West
In the middle of East and West, Saudi Arabia is a society that has been the object of a socioeconomic plan to engineer a sustainable, knowledge-driven, and market-based economy since before the pandemic. The plan, which heavily relies on young college-educated women, requires a traditional collectivistic ethos to adjust to an individualistic one. The pandemic has temporarily interrupted the execution of the plan. The main aim of the present study…
Are law students’ individual differences in the post-pandemic world related to performance
The present study examined the dispositions of female undergraduate law students one semester after their return to face-to-face classes. It aimed to determine the contribution of particular dispositions to academic performance. Dispositions selected were those that are known to promote adaptation, such as self-efficacy and emotional intelligence, as well as resistance-to-change attitudes, which are known to do the opposite. Freshmen ( n = 261) a…
Laudable Madness
This essay zooms in on the story of the Palestinian body condemned to suffer unspeakable injustices so that a system based on inequity keeps working for the few. It relies on poetic texts written or performed by those whose bodies are controlled by the interrelated forces of settler colonialism, authoritarianism, and imperialism. The storms these forces unleash and the prices they exact in terms of human life cement the condition of the body whos…
What Are Male and Female Students’ Views of Science in a Society in Transition? A Self-Study of an Institution of Higher Education
Consensus exists among countries of the world that science literacy is necessary for sustainability. Instruction may emphasize comprehension of scientific contents as well as the use of scientific information to examine and understand life on earth, but students’ interest in science is the base on which such instruction rests. In the present field research, we examined female and male college students’ views of science education within their chos…
The shifting grounds of humour
Masameer (which means ‘nails’ in Arabic) is a series of cartoons posted on YouTube. Each cartoon addresses, in a manner that is both jocose and analytical, a critical issue that shapes the everyday life of residents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Masameer exemplifies not only the views of humour by those who practice and consume it, but also its boundaries within a society both immersed in tradition and forced to respond to calls for change. In …
A Corruption Course through a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
The present study examines the challenges and the rewards of assessing learning in a seminar on corruption which is taught in a country (Iraq) where political corruption is seen as the main source of structural instability and sectarian tensions. It specifically focuses on the role of culturally relevant pedagogy in defining the most suitable summative assessment. To this end, essay test questions were developed concerning the relevance of politi…
Critical minds in Arabic and Islamic studies courses
In the present manuscript, we report the findings of a study that surveyed female college students' views of revamped Islamic and Arabic Culture courses embedded in the curriculum of a secular academic program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Of interest were students' views of and responses to recently implemented features of the curriculum and instruction that exemplified active learning. The ancillary aim was to determine whether views and resp…
A Close-Up on a Predictive Moment
Prediction allows learners to adjust behavior toward the future by exploiting information pertaining to the present and the past. Through a field study, we examined whether poor performing students are truly unaware of not knowing their deficiencies as the illusion of knowing (IoK) phenomenon implies. College students’ ability to predict their final test performance was surveyed as a function of experience (before and after the test), performance…
Nailing it à la Saudi
The present study first explores the phenomenon of Saudi satire on YouTube since 2010, and then focuses on the popular Masāmīr (Nails), an extensive series of cartoons posted on YouTube. Along with other comedy shows, Masāmīr not only exemplifies the uses of satire by those who practice and consume it, but also unravels what Janet Roitman and Achille Mbembe describe as the subject in times of crisis (1995). Namely, laughter is read as a means of …
The Education of Dispute Resolution in Al Jazeera Al Arabiya
In law and business schools, culturally relevant/responsive curricula can aid students’ academic success. In this paper, we examine the use of culturally responsive narratives to illustrate principles and practices of dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration) in the Middle East as distinct or similar to those prescribed under Common Law. Through narratives embedded in familiar historical and socio-cultural contexts, we argue that students of…
The New and the Old
Using a case study method, we examine how practitioners, including judges, arbitrators and community mediators, view dispute resolution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ). The goal of this study is to assess whether traditional approaches to dispute resolution coexist with or are discarded for imported modes. Participants were selected through convenience sampling. Structured interviews involved (a) participants’ general theoretical foundatio…
Walking with Lips Raining Fire and Love! Arab Poets’ Testimony to the World
This essay is about Arab poets’ testimonials on the failures and strengths of the human condition. Their work has unmistakably exceeded nationalist projects in line with Fanon’s international dimension of the national consciousness, which is at heart a commitment to human dignity, coevalness, and freedom. Arab poets envisioned liberation through a revolt against the self that has surrendered to the oppressors’ fantasy to consider their injustices…
Responses to the Statements of New General Self-Efficacy Scale
General Self-Efficacy (GSE) scales are used to measure the extent to which individuals possess a general sense of mastery that is not tied to a specific situation or behavior. The present field experiment assesses whether the language in which a GSE scale is written can prime cultural mind-sets and, thus, shape participants’ appraisal of their own self-efficacy. Arabic–English bilingual speakers completed the New General Self-Efficacy (NGSE) scal…
The Wisdom of Stubbornness
How does it feel when one’s wound is an exhibit for an academic who investigates what is scripted as defeated life practices? How does it feel to deal with texts announcing victorious life practices such as human rights and progress while life is being threatened by the modern technologies of violence? How is it possible to read the texts in any hermeneutic fashion while so many familiar ‘coloured’ bodies are being targeted and slaughtered? These…
The Ethics of Tahreer Square
Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B and C virus infections among the general population and blood donors in Morocco
Our study provided much important information concerning hepatitis B and C prevalence and risk factors; it confirmed the intermediate endemicity for HCV infection and pointed to a decreasing trend of HBV incidence, which might reclassify Morocco in low HBV endemicity area. This could be attributed primarily to the universal HBV vaccination among infants and healthcare workers over the past 13 years. HCV and HBV infections in the present survey we…
Chanting Tahreer and Compassion
The contention of this essay is that the current Arab revolutions of the so-called Arab Spring must be seen in the context of broader resistance in the colonized Muslim world to global political modernity. This essay focuses especially on the constitutive role that poetry plays in resistance to colonialism and violence. After situating this general phenomenon of poetic resistance in a global context with reference to Abdelrahman Munif, Mahmoud Da…
The shifting grounds of humour
Masameer (which means ‘nails’ in Arabic) is a series of cartoons posted on YouTube. Each cartoon addresses, in a manner that is both jocose and analytical, a critical issue that shapes the everyday life of residents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Masameer exemplifies not only the views of humour by those who practice and consume it, but also its boundaries within a society both immersed in tradition and forced to respond to calls for change. In …
Responses to the Statements of New General Self-Efficacy Scale
General Self-Efficacy (GSE) scales are used to measure the extent to which individuals possess a general sense of mastery that is not tied to a specific situation or behavior. The present field experiment assesses whether the language in which a GSE scale is written can prime cultural mind-sets and, thus, shape participants’ appraisal of their own self-efficacy. Arabic–English bilingual speakers completed the New General Self-Efficacy (NGSE) scal…
Chanting Tahreer and Compassion
The contention of this essay is that the current Arab revolutions of the so-called Arab Spring must be seen in the context of broader resistance in the colonized Muslim world to global political modernity. This essay focuses especially on the constitutive role that poetry plays in resistance to colonialism and violence. After situating this general phenomenon of poetic resistance in a global context with reference to Abdelrahman Munif, Mahmoud Da…
Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B and C virus infections among the general population and blood donors in Morocco
Our study provided much important information concerning hepatitis B and C prevalence and risk factors; it confirmed the intermediate endemicity for HCV infection and pointed to a decreasing trend of HBV incidence, which might reclassify Morocco in low HBV endemicity area. This could be attributed primarily to the universal HBV vaccination among infants and healthcare workers over the past 13 years. HCV and HBV infections in the present survey we…
The Ethics of Tahreer Square
The Wisdom of Stubbornness
How does it feel when one’s wound is an exhibit for an academic who investigates what is scripted as defeated life practices? How does it feel to deal with texts announcing victorious life practices such as human rights and progress while life is being threatened by the modern technologies of violence? How is it possible to read the texts in any hermeneutic fashion while so many familiar ‘coloured’ bodies are being targeted and slaughtered? These…
Responses to the Statements of New General Self-Efficacy Scale
General Self-Efficacy (GSE) scales are used to measure the extent to which individuals possess a general sense of mastery that is not tied to a specific situation or behavior. The present field experiment assesses whether the language in which a GSE scale is written can prime cultural mind-sets and, thus, shape participants’ appraisal of their own self-efficacy. Arabic–English bilingual speakers completed the New General Self-Efficacy (NGSE) scal…
Walking with Lips Raining Fire and Love! Arab Poets’ Testimony to the World
This essay is about Arab poets’ testimonials on the failures and strengths of the human condition. Their work has unmistakably exceeded nationalist projects in line with Fanon’s international dimension of the national consciousness, which is at heart a commitment to human dignity, coevalness, and freedom. Arab poets envisioned liberation through a revolt against the self that has surrendered to the oppressors’ fantasy to consider their injustices…
Nailing it à la Saudi
The present study first explores the phenomenon of Saudi satire on YouTube since 2010, and then focuses on the popular Masāmīr (Nails), an extensive series of cartoons posted on YouTube. Along with other comedy shows, Masāmīr not only exemplifies the uses of satire by those who practice and consume it, but also unravels what Janet Roitman and Achille Mbembe describe as the subject in times of crisis (1995). Namely, laughter is read as a means of …
The Education of Dispute Resolution in Al Jazeera Al Arabiya
In law and business schools, culturally relevant/responsive curricula can aid students’ academic success. In this paper, we examine the use of culturally responsive narratives to illustrate principles and practices of dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration) in the Middle East as distinct or similar to those prescribed under Common Law. Through narratives embedded in familiar historical and socio-cultural contexts, we argue that students of…
The New and the Old
Using a case study method, we examine how practitioners, including judges, arbitrators and community mediators, view dispute resolution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ). The goal of this study is to assess whether traditional approaches to dispute resolution coexist with or are discarded for imported modes. Participants were selected through convenience sampling. Structured interviews involved (a) participants’ general theoretical foundatio…
A Corruption Course through a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
The present study examines the challenges and the rewards of assessing learning in a seminar on corruption which is taught in a country (Iraq) where political corruption is seen as the main source of structural instability and sectarian tensions. It specifically focuses on the role of culturally relevant pedagogy in defining the most suitable summative assessment. To this end, essay test questions were developed concerning the relevance of politi…
Critical minds in Arabic and Islamic studies courses
In the present manuscript, we report the findings of a study that surveyed female college students' views of revamped Islamic and Arabic Culture courses embedded in the curriculum of a secular academic program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Of interest were students' views of and responses to recently implemented features of the curriculum and instruction that exemplified active learning. The ancillary aim was to determine whether views and resp…
A Close-Up on a Predictive Moment
Prediction allows learners to adjust behavior toward the future by exploiting information pertaining to the present and the past. Through a field study, we examined whether poor performing students are truly unaware of not knowing their deficiencies as the illusion of knowing (IoK) phenomenon implies. College students’ ability to predict their final test performance was surveyed as a function of experience (before and after the test), performance…
What Are Male and Female Students’ Views of Science in a Society in Transition? A Self-Study of an Institution of Higher Education
Consensus exists among countries of the world that science literacy is necessary for sustainability. Instruction may emphasize comprehension of scientific contents as well as the use of scientific information to examine and understand life on earth, but students’ interest in science is the base on which such instruction rests. In the present field research, we examined female and male college students’ views of science education within their chos…
The shifting grounds of humour
Masameer (which means ‘nails’ in Arabic) is a series of cartoons posted on YouTube. Each cartoon addresses, in a manner that is both jocose and analytical, a critical issue that shapes the everyday life of residents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Masameer exemplifies not only the views of humour by those who practice and consume it, but also its boundaries within a society both immersed in tradition and forced to respond to calls for change. In …
Changing times in the middle of East and West
In the middle of East and West, Saudi Arabia is a society that has been the object of a socioeconomic plan to engineer a sustainable, knowledge-driven, and market-based economy since before the pandemic. The plan, which heavily relies on young college-educated women, requires a traditional collectivistic ethos to adjust to an individualistic one. The pandemic has temporarily interrupted the execution of the plan. The main aim of the present study…
Are law students’ individual differences in the post-pandemic world related to performance
The present study examined the dispositions of female undergraduate law students one semester after their return to face-to-face classes. It aimed to determine the contribution of particular dispositions to academic performance. Dispositions selected were those that are known to promote adaptation, such as self-efficacy and emotional intelligence, as well as resistance-to-change attitudes, which are known to do the opposite. Freshmen ( n = 261) a…
Laudable Madness
This essay zooms in on the story of the Palestinian body condemned to suffer unspeakable injustices so that a system based on inequity keeps working for the few. It relies on poetic texts written or performed by those whose bodies are controlled by the interrelated forces of settler colonialism, authoritarianism, and imperialism. The storms these forces unleash and the prices they exact in terms of human life cement the condition of the body whos…
Cultural considerations for the second language writing anxiety inventory
Introduction This study examines the applicability of the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) to a population of 857 native Arabic-speaking Saudi Arabian female university students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Methods Participants were divided into two groups. The first of these consisted of 430 students who participated in the testing portion of the study. The second group consisted of 427 students who participated…
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